IQ Test #1

Here's a brief 10 question IQ test covering history, current events, logic, etc. The answers are following the questions. Take the test and find out how you rate, brainpower-wise.

1. What was Nader's nadir?
2. What was Zenith's zenith?
3. What was the high point of High Point?
4. Do egrets have regrets?
5. Why did Orientals discover the Occident by accident?
6. What is the "pair of dimes" paradigm?
7. What U.S. college offers a major in mining and a minor in majoring?
8. What was the lore of Les Moore of yore, more or less?
9. What values does Fosters foster?
10. What was the longest running show on television?


Answers:

1. After his successful diatribe against the automobile industry in "Unsafe at Any Speed", Ralph Nader's absolute low point was his ill-advised sequel, "Sixty in the Carwash."

2. The famous television company, Zenith enjoyed their highest sales figures in the early 1960's when they were selling TV's like hotcakes. (Hotcakes sold like pancakes in those days)

3. The greatest days of the city of High Point, North Carolina, were probably in the 'roaring '20's' when illegal booze flowed freely and the Fitzgeralds crashed every party in town. Ain't they got fun?

4. It has not been scientifically determined whether egrets have actual 'regrets' over things they've done or whether they just 'second guess' themselves every now and then.

5. Failure to orient themselves correctly.

6. In most locales, 20 cents.

7. Ripon College in Wisconsin offers Mining as a major and Majoring in the U.S. Army as a minor.

8. Yes, well more or less, the legend was that Les Moore was a notorious gunfighter who was gunned down in Tombstone, Arizona in the 1800's, and the epitaph on his gravestone reads:
Here lies Les Moore, Four slugs from a .44, No Les, No Moore.

9. The Australian beer company fosters hard work, justice and a sense of fair play.

10. The annual airing of the Boston Marathon (26.2 miles) has always been the longest running show on television.